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Program protection discussed in seminar
By RON BAIN Staff Reporter
Computer programmers are the behind-the-scenes thinkers who do the real work in making computers compute, but they are rarely recognized for their work. KU computer research associate, said第二天 at a computer-users seminar.
The seminar, the first in a series presented by the User Services Group of the Computer Center, was a panel discussion on computer programs from being copied.
Other speakers at the seminar were Mike Davis, KU general counsel; Donald Johnson, a partner with Schmidt, Johnson, and Christopher; and Stephen Farrn, firm; and Alexandra Mason, KU librarian.
Software, or the language and symbols used in programming computers, has become at least as important as computers themselves in recent years, Burch said.
A computer program is instructions given to a computer, in a language designed for computers, by a programmer to control and order its functions.
"SOFTWARE, INITially, was never expected to be such a big problem; was never expected to be such a huge component of a computer system," he said.
Computer programmers have tried in the past to patent or copyright their programs, but have had little luck, said Johnson, a law student at handed legal problems with computers.
The Supreme Court considered a patent case involving a computer program 11 years
ago, but never made a definite ruling on whether computer programs can be written.
In general, current patent laws do not apply to computer programs, but the 1968 Supreme Court ruling indicated that exceptions might be made in unusual cases, he said.
COPYRIGHT LAWS apply to the text of the computer programs, Johnson said, but they do not prevent the use of a similar program. Johnson wrote of an unrelated computer program.
Burch said that because there were several different computer languages, a program that was copyrighted in FORTRAN could be legally copied in PASCAL. FORTRAN and PASCAL are names of two computer languages.
Protecting the rights of the authors of computer programs would aid the computer industry.
"Providing feedback to the producer of that work is the only way, is the best way of getting quality work, quality performance from computer programmers."
Law professor elected as mayor of Lawrence
BY TAMMI HARBERT Staff Reporter
Barkley Clark was unanimously elected mayor of Lawrence by City Council and became mayor night after Marcel Francisco and Robert Schumman, who were elected to the City Council.
Outgoing commissioners Marnie Argersinger and Jack Rose were given keys to the city.
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Donald Binns, former mayor, read a farewell ode to each.
Parts of the ode to Argeringer, with whom Bimis had sided on many issues, said, "Marie. I'm going to miss you a lot and that you're gone. I'm alone on the spot."
Clark, a University of Kansas professor of law, said his priorities for the coming year would be to complete various city building projects such as the city hall and the city water plant, to build a housing complex and to minimize labor relations problems.
dinance regarding mobile signs so that businesses could not use trucks or cars with advertising on them on the business' property.
According to Brent McFall, management analyst who drew up the proposed changes, some businesses in Lawrence have used such advertising, but it is not regulated under city codes. A decision was deferred for one week.
In new business, Francisco asked the commission to consider an amendment to the Oread Plan, a plan for re-zooning the area that extends from Ninth Street to 17th Street and from Massachusetts Street to KU.
The amendment would require commercial businesses to provide parking for bicycles and cars. The motion was seconded by the Planning Committee of County Planning Commission for study.
Friscoce also called for clearer guidelines for community development in Lawrence because of a dispute between the commission and Margaret Brun, president of the North Lawrence Association, a neighborhood group.
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